UAV drone and obstacle avoidance
This on going project aims to design the guidance trajectory and obstacle avoidance capability of the drone. The first issues was that to obtain an autonomous drone, they should be equipped with maneuver capability especially when considering flying in urban and at low altitude.
The are many factors to be research in this specific problem:
1. Guidance controller (simulation and experiment)
2. Sensor characteristics through experiment
Both of this problem has been addressed and the guidance for lateral movement has been obtained and tested. the flow for guidance and avoidance is shown is the following flowchart.
By obtaining the controller of the drone, the lateral movement can be designed. The characteristic of the sensor in this experiment, we used LIDAR 360degree scanner, was used to estimated the distance error in order to perform decision for case by case condition.
The way forward for this research is to perform system integration of the guidance controller and sensors on the real hardware and tested on real obstacles.
and IP has been filed for the algorithm
Credits to assistance reseachers, Ms Jia Yee and Mr Fitri Asreen for conducting the experiments. Guidance and analysis by Dr Mastura.